Making WOOD GLASS | Home Chemistry Experiment

[@NileRed]

Interesting idea! I'll have to try it out myself, but it probably wouldn't be for a while. Let me know if you ever have any chem questions about it though.

[@CKOD]

i.imgur.com/5P3yozA.gifv

[@DirtyRobot]

Love your channel NR. But hey, these comments are all calling for Cody. The screaming hoards want the hip beekeeper and not you or the other NR. I'm surprised they are not calling for the crazy russiad haxor to solve this problem with his mountain of kitchen gajicks.

[@NileRed]

Lol, Im sure a lot of people just don't even know who I am or Nurd Rage.

[@DirtyRobot]

There's a whole brigade of awesome channels yet to get the viewers they deserve. You wizards of the elements definitely deserve the traffic even if it's just to watch a guy cook up his peepee.

[@CorndogBrownie]

NileRed please go through this mess and give a concise explanation of what is going into and going on in this mess of “stuff”. I really love how you give a basically “no sugar added” explanation of what you are trying to do and what actually happens.

[@Jamesvandaele]

Remember, if you aren't a part of the solution, you are a part of the precipitate.

[@NoBug404]

James Van Daele Chemistry says alcohol is a solution!

[@therealpanse]

it's not. it's a solvent.

[@journeymancurmudgeon3113]

Sociology says alcohol is a lubricant!

[@seanmcaleavy2369]

A solution to solvent all your problems!

[@paulsengupta971]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/noa5qIVmp9xonM0

[@xTheRenegade666x]

Wood?!?! In the Empire of dirt??? My head spins... Good way to get the female persuasion to watch ya tho. A lot of women have a carpentry fetish...Most love wood and a good chunk of em really appreciate good tongue-in-groove work.

[@colinantink9094]

xTheRenegade666x massively underrated comment right here ^

[@seccat]

They are more concerned about their plastics. Especially when it swells, on account of the hydrophilic behavior of that brake fluid/lub. The shaft just doesn’t have enough clearance, to do the job. PS: you have a dirty mind, if you find that funny

[@johncox9660]

You are a BAD Man thanks for a laugh.

[@gddjr24]

The best comment ever

[@weareallbeingwatched4602]

Tongue and groove, not tongue in groove. Ekh.

[@StrummerDave]

Lemme tell ya about getting NaOH in your eye. It ain’t fun and it requires presence of mind and situational awareness to deal with it. As a young lad back on The Rock I used to make hydrogen balloons by mixing household lye, water and tin foil in a coke bottle and putting a balloon over the mouth of the bottle. Well, more is better and a faster reaction must be better. One day as I was amping up the production a balloon popped of a bottle and, you guessed it, the vile mix sprayed into my left eye. In a panic I thought of what to do, pour vinegar in my eye. Painful? Sure. Less than what was going on? Absolutely. I sprinted up from the basement to discover that we were out. Either that or, in my panic, I couldn’t find it. My next thought was French dressing which I was a huge fan of and knew where it was. Yup, I irrigated my eye with orange Kraft french dressing. 35yrs later I can still watch mind numbing crap on KZbin with both eyes. True story. Great channel.

[@smiledogjgp]

You are lucky as hell, man! Lye happens to have the hellish property of being soluable and hygroscopic, so when it gets into your eyes, it will travel to the highest water concentration. That happens to be the inside of your eyes. So if you don't act lightning quick, you're going to have lye irigating your eye sockets.

[@firstmkb]

Holy crap, that was great thinking under pressure!

[@3dsman]

Dammmmmmmmmm.... just Daammmmmmmmm.... note to self: 1) Don't fuxx with Lye 2) Don't fuxx with Lye 3) Don't fuxx with Lye 4) Goto 1)

[@Donorcyclist]

Holy crap, that made my eyes water just to read! Reminds me of a great "Kids in the Hall" skit where Kevin throws salt in his own eye... Hahaha!

[@endlessnameless8181]

@@excitedbox5705 why, I get all of my best ideas when my neighbor is high on meth!

[@hanchymanchy5680]

As a godforsaken chemistician, look for a separate but usually linked "Supporting Information" (or SI) PDF to get the actual experimental procedure. The journal article discusses results, the SI says what they actually did.

[@DerDanachDenkende]

the experimental procedure is actually described within the article, but as usual, at the end of the article. I guess uncle bumblefuck didn't read all the way to the end :D. The SI contains photos of the samples/solutions during and after the procedure (super helpful to check, if everything works out as it should), FESEM pictures and some graphs and photos that proof the transparancy. My guess is that the H2O2 treatment and the washing steps weren't as thoroughly as needed, and the polymer infiltration was also a little bit more complicated.

[@hanchymanchy5680]

Well, that's me shown . . . thanks for the correction. I still recommend checking out the SI for any future demos; it never hurts, and sometimes does contain syntheses (useful for the home chef) and characterization data (for the lab guys who have machines to tell them if they did something right).

[@Greaner762]

This helped me a lot with my research, thanks

[@TedCarnahan]

"Where are we? Oh yeah, we just got demonetized." I died laughing!

[@dunxy]

Internet,you are a winner

[@weareallbeingwatched4602]

Ted Carnahan not demonised... demonetised

[@deanwinchest3906]

~Backwards spells DiCa~

[@Hxcgangster2011]

I wanted to like this but it's got 420 likes

[@miaouew]

rip

[@goodsirminnow]

0:20 You should just ask your patreons to look up journal articles for you. Some of us have university access to academic databases ;-)

[@yacinebenahmed_uqar]

Also, the LazyScholar extension for Chrome is usually pretty good for a first pass search, just google scholar something and it'll find you a source pdf from most major publishing houses. Annnd never forget sci-hub.tw or some other top domain that keeps changing because of copyright mafiosos...

[@Tb0n3]

Just don't turn up like Aaron Swartz.

[@simonhopkins3867]

patreons thank you so much.

[@explosu]

Read 'academic diabetes.'

[@flemish4]

I've been using the 'Redirector' chrome extension to redirect academic paper websites to the sci-hub equivalent. Its the best thing I ever set up. e.g. (^http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/\d+\/) -> sci-hub.hk/$1 (^https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/.*) (^https:\/\/www\.sciencedirect\.com\/science\/article\/pii\/.*)

[@mulymule12]

Right, Cody’s lab, you’re up. Give it a go.

[@grisza77]

exactly my thought!

[@lauej]

Or NileRed

[@RobFulcher]

Hell, do both. Parallel-path the crap outta it.

[@grisza77]

Cody is more exploratory. But what the heck, may both of'em dissolve lignum - soft wood for Cody, oak for Nile

[@ryanmiskin]

I was going to say the same thing.

[@unknown3E]

This guy knows too much about too much. His knowledge astounds me every video I watch. He’s so smart I bet his wife is never right.

[@cmbunton]

Hey AvE bro, I'm a materials research chemist and it looked like you were doing a great job up until the epoxy phase. Just a few suggestions for you that may increase your chances of success. 1. You are right about adding a solvent to your epoxy mixture. Under preferable conditions (you having greater access to chemicals) I would suggest changing the polymer mix to something inherently less viscous (some silicones are great if you are looking for flexibility in the end product)... but adding solvent like acetone or methyl-alcohol (methanol) is your best bet. I would try methyl-alcohol first since you are probably going to have problems with the acetone either inhibiting crosslinking of the polymer mixture, or you will have evaporation problems under vacuum (acetone leaving the polymer mixture in the vapor phase). 2. You should definitely degas your polymer mixture PARTS separately prior to mixing. This is an extra step and you will obviously still have to vacuum the mixture with the delignified wood, however it will most likely drastically reduce the amount of foaming (bubbling) during that last vacuum step (this is also a consideration for using methyl-alcohol over acetone). Anyways, that's my two cents. Very interesting project. I may have to try this in my own lab sometime. Keep your dick in a vice.

[@dingdong475]

Son of a diddly !

[@holypizza1]

Thanks for your tips

[@OldF1000]

Son white liquor is made from corn and served in Mason jars don't you know ; )

[@michaelburger1591]

CD S layhes on the white liquor as well but not the kind ur thinking of

[@peterwelsh6975]

That's white lightning lol

[@michaelburger1591]

No I’m making a joke about trailer park boys they call nose beers white lightning but i know it’s called that too

[@michaelburger1591]

Peter Welsh ^

[@nickedwards7992]

We just call it Shine here,live right in the heart of Shine making.

[@boutellejb]

My 2 cents' worth: don't mess with the viscosity yet. Instead do multiple vacuum purges: pull a vacuum, little bubbles will then turn big and pop, and also will force their way out of the wood. Releasing the vacuum will make any remaining bubbles small again, and also suck the epoxy into the wood to replace the voids that are vacuumed out. Do this a few times, and then leave it without vacuum to cure.

[@peepzorz]

Yeah it seems like the vacuum step pulls air out of the wood and pushes epoxy away, need to devacuum before it cures so it has a chance to flow back into the voids. However, the fact that there were so many embedded bubbles from vacuuming alone makes me think that lowering the viscosity will also help bouyancy bring those to the surface and pop easier also. I think both lower viscosity and multiple vacuum/re-pressurize cycles have a better chance of success.

[@001desertrat3]

Vacuum's SUCK !

[@peterwoolliams1283]

In my experience epoxy doesn’t like hard vacuum as it can start to boil. The resin is just to index match the fibres, so I would try a low viscosity polyurethane resin (sold as solid water and for making paths with all the stones stuck together. The refractive index is a bit lower than epoxy, but you can’t have it all! Nice low viscosity one, get one with a loooooong pot life and pump the life out of it... should take as hard a suck as your wee pump can muster. Then cycle the degassing, regarding, degassing etc and hope you can suck the air out that woody stuff.

[@appallingacceleration1134]

"Where are we? Oh, yeah we just got demonetized." LMAO.

[@XanderLuciano]

From what I've heard, KZbin is actually able to use speech recognition to pickup and flag videos based on what is said.

[@tyvole2387]

Yeah, that cracked me up too!

[@Misack8]

I Had to pause the video to recover my breath.

[@spacekiller6856]

“I’m missing an electron, I’m positive I’m missing an electron” good one

[@tomf3150]

With a british accent.

[@mc_cpu]

Perhaps try emailing the scientists directly, in my experience they are often more than happy that someone's showing interest in their work and can be very helpful.

[@markbell9742]

The vacuum draws the gases out, then bring back to atmospheric which then pushes the resin back into the pores of the wood. Your wood must be as dry as possible so dry under vacuum before starting. Cheers, Mark PS I don't have a clue about what I just wrote, but what the hell, try it.

[@JessieAMorris]

Mark Beeunas I like this idea. They talk about vacuum and depressurization cycles.

[@kmrst10000]

What I gather is that they cycled the gas in and out of the vacuum 3-4 times to draw it all the way into the wood.

[@Misack8]

Exactly that! He just pulled a vacuum and let it cure while under vacuum, however he should have cycled it back and forth before it cures in sequential cycles as soon as it gets to a vacuum. BUT, how much vacuum should he pulls? As much as possible?

[@Jewelrymaker]

Exactly! Degas. Pull vacuum, then release will cause bubbles to collapse. Keeping the vacuum on will never release the bubbles.

[@xeluc7837]

Yes this is it. The wood needs to be dried under vacuum or with a desiccant, the viscosity of the resin needs to be lowered, and the vacuum needs to be cycled a few times for best absorption. The digestion seemed to work well, but the oxidation of the lignin seemed incomplete. i'd give both steps more time with fresh application of chemicals, and then try again once the material is completely dry :)

[@jaguilar101]

Rapidly becoming my favorite channel. I mostly watch "tech" channels, but they all seem to be reviewing a Dyson Vacuum instead of actual computer components... I wonder why?

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

$hills.

[@jaguilar101]

No ... I won't believe it. Clearly their funny faces on their thumbnails is representative of their unbiased and fair reviews of products that came with a check.

[@texasdeeslinglead2401]

s11n Aguilar let's not go back over Linus and friends falling before the molded plastic idol of sir dyson.

[@glitchdoubt1525]

thats because linus sold his soul to the corpo's.

[@GLITCH_-.-]

I looked into your subscriptions, s11n. There are only like 20% tech channels. LIAR!

[@woodesroger]

welcome to chemistry AvE, where nothing works and everything hurts

[@Chris-vx5kp]

The place where Alcohol is the solution to everything.

[@Hebdomad7]

And here I was thinking that was physics!

[@MazeFrame]

Better than computer science, the magical place where thinking rocks turn one solutions into two problems.

[@seccat]

Failure occurred in basic arithmetics, in computing the molar to weight ratio of Na2SO2 (its 2 sodium atomsj.

[@KingNast]

Alice called. The Bradys want their hotplate back

[@INTERNATIONAL_RDF-D]

KingNast the 70s called they want that joke back.

[@ChozoSR388]

Thanks for the laugh

[@Human1337]

I skipped the video as soon as I didn't hear "Treat Especial!!" in the first five seconds...........not really =)

[@steventhedog94]

Wtf only 6 likes

[@seeigecannon]

For the degassing try this: 1: Mix your epoxy with the acetone, then degas it by itself to get a majority of the air bubbles out of it. Don't go too deep in the vacuum because you will lose your acetone. 2: Then stick your wood in it and pull a mild vacuum. 3: Then replace the vacuum with high pressure air. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times to force as much epoxy in the wood as you can. You wont have to worry about viscosity as much after you do the first degas cycle. When you are finished with the degassing, instead of allowing it to cure in a vacuum put it in a pressure tank at about 100PSI or so. I don't know how your wood will turn out, but your epoxy will look like glass. Source: I have years of manufacturing experience with casting epoxies.

[@aleksandersuur9475]

This dude seems to know a thing or two about epoxy, listen to him. Allowing it to cure under vacuum seems to be where things went wrong, bubbles guaranteed all over the place, epoxy foams up and doesn't go clear unless you collapse the low pressure foam with pressure. If you can put more than atmospheric for curing more power to you, volume of any bubbles is inversely proportional to pressure.

[@kenneth6731]

Your statement sir is exactly correct. Thank you.

[@firstmkb]

seeigecannon how much strength does the epoxy lose from the acetone, or what kind of ratios do you use for your application?

[@miaouew]

"Stick your wood in it"

[@supergub]

My 10 year old just walked passed, took a look at your talking hands and said "Those are some big sausages" and walked on. He's running a fever.

[@3dsman]

My hands felt like two balloons...

[@Guysm1l3y]

Tip that took me way too long to figure out in life: when pouring out of cans like the epoxy you were mixing, turn the can so the spout is at the top, not the bottom. Then you can pour without it glugging and dripping all over the rim of the can.

[@johnphillip1711]

My old man taught me that one (he's an industrial painter albeit served his time as a coach painter)

[@Phred_Phlintstoner]

Guy Smiley funny I was showing a few people that trick at work last week while pouring mineral oil from a 5 gallon bucket into a small spray bottle. I've seen so many messes made from not doing this over the years.

[@colind5092]

same deal with engine oil for your car. no mess at all

[@PaulMurrayCanberra]

Same with milk cartons.

[@ExaltedDuck]

That's a protip every self respecting man should know. Makes a funnel an optional cleanliness item rather than required equipment when filling the oil on most engines.

[@PaleDogToolCo]

I couldn’t stop staring at that green handled screwdriver. Clear stabilized wood might be cool on one of those prototypes.

[@SPAZWIK82]

I’ve worked in pulp & paper for 16 years and you’ve taught me more in 1 vigeo than experts in my industry have in my entire career. You have the best content and have helped me excel at work and on the homestead. Thank you sir!

[@Doc_Hawk]

Hey everyone and welcome back to AvE's lab *waves* *thumbs up*

[@JustSushi0]

Doc Hawk I was just thinking I wanna see Cody attempt this

[@2011majood]

Took me a while but I got the joke Nice one

[@JimGriffOne]

Latex gloves, nitrile gloves... They both disintegrate with chemicals I use - carb cleaner especially! Funnily enough, my skin gloves don't seem to be affected by it much. Although, I guess it takes a while to grow skin gloves back after sulphuric acid exposure.

[@ficolas2]

Well, you can touch conc. sulphuric, as long as its room temp. Just wash it off quickly. Nitric acid? same thing, less time to wash it off. Gloves give a few more seconds to washing the hands with nitric acid. Red fuming nitric acid? well thats some scarier shit right there

[@hickoryridgefarms]

I use all kinds of these chemicals everyday and wear latex. You just have to have very limited contact and changed often

[@Nemozoli]

Fuming nitric acid turns your latex gloves into fireballs... so I don't really believe that you can get away with "limited contact" with it. watch?v=aBVdGGml6bU Wear butyl gloves!

[@cunningpunt]

ficolas2 as someone who's skin ha s come into contact with 98% sulpuric acid at room temperature I'm telling you it protonates right away. I've the scars to remember it by. Do not touch it even for a second when it's concentrated.

[@theleva7]

I was taught in my university that the only purpose of any gloves is to give you few seconds to take them off in case of contamination, not to protect you indefinitely.

[@Scott-qy2ts]

hes gonna be a damn wood fiddler soon boys. channels over.

[@Ho1yhe11]

Scott W if you look at the lemongrasspicker channel you might question that he may have been fooling you this whole time kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioWqmHSnnbV4fLs

[@brandonnewell4552]

Twist Ending: AvE is Earl Hindman,Tim the toolman Taylor's neighbor from Home Improvement

[@julians7268]

By far my favorite channel on KZbin. I love the tool videos and when I found these science experiments I scheduled the tattoo. He could make videos where he just sweeps or digs in dirt and he would make it amazing.

[@TheFishingHobby]

I think too much epoxy was the problem, the heat it generates speeds up the hardening process. Acetone (as you said) is your best bet for a thinner and it also slows down the hardening process. I use epoxy building fishing rods. After I mix it, I pour it onto a flat aluminum surface to dissipate the heat and also spread the epoxy out which slows down the heating somewhat too. Interesting project 👍

[@JeffMadre]

The Fishing Hobby But then heat applied with an alcohol lamp thins the epoxy to release any bubbles, so maybe more heat is needed?

[@cartmanrlsusall]

The Fishing Hobby does it lose strength from that treatment? If it extends the potlife of expensive epoxy it would be worth the extra step

[@TheFishingHobby]

From what I understand it does lose some strength when thinned with acetone. As far as using heat to release the bubbles, yes that does work but it also speeds up the curing process. You can also use vacuum pressure to release the air bubbles but it also speeds up the cure time. I would think in this case you may want to dip the wood into epoxy and then remove the excess epoxy and put it under vacuum to pull it into the pores...but that is just a guess.

[@DirtyRobot]

I don't think that shaking the epoxy before mixing was the best thing AVE could have done.

[@TheFishingHobby]

Dirty Robot that mixer he was using to mix the cocktail would have been great for mixing the epoxy without introducing extra air into it.

[@Marue2012]

AvE you should try reaching out to NurdRage about doing a follow up video going into more detail about this process.

[@williamwalter7868]

One piece of advice from a Gray Beard (white actually). When you pour a liquid from an “F” Style can (a rectangular can or bottle with an offset spout in the top) hold the can with the spout at the top nearer your holding hand. When the product pours it will not dribble all over the top of the can. and it will not glug.

[@lrodpeterson3046]

My father taught me that before I was a teenager. I'm also of the aged variety. Used the technique just yesterday when I was pouring chicken broth out if its container. Didn't care about the dribbling, but wanted to control the glug.

[@lrodpeterson3046]

First liar doesn't have a chance...

[@ztej]

Actually you just hold the can backwards and pour the opposite way for the perfect pour trust me it feels weird at first your aim may be off at first but works great when you get used to it

[@carlwitt2663]

21:50 Why do elephants have 4 feet? Because 8 inches won't cut it.

[@StudentBoots]

We use automatic transmission fluid to treat our cedar siding. The red of the ATF brings out the colour in the wood and it just glows in the sun, and helps delay the silver aging.

[@Nono-hk3is]

Next up, transparent aluminium!

[@0418182308lw]

No no that already exists it's called saphier(aluminium oxide crystal) and I'm pretty sure the use it in iss windows

[@zachb2046]

yea its more like a ceramic than anything else. ISS is using it and I think theyre looking into using it for ballistic glass in heavy vehicles (i.e. tank n bradley view ports). Not sure if they're actually doing that yet...

[@SQTOS]

Aluminium oxynitride (hint) (for fucks sake, it shows me, ''Aluminum'' as correct, god fuckin dammit ) (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

[@johnphillip1711]

Hello Computer

[@elitearbor]

AlON is pretty common, actually.

[@SuperMarcoArt]

Rather than diluting the resin you’ve got with solvent, try the slow cure variant of Entropy Resin’s Super Sap CCR. It’s crystal clear. Viscosity is 195cps when mixed- much lower than even your diluted stuff. Or try Cactus Juice. It’s a heat activated wood stabilizing resin used for penetrating punky wood for turning. Viscosity is 6 (not a typo; as in less than 10) cps however it has a faint amber tint. When you degas, you have to let the air back in otherwise the bubbles never collapse and just harden as bubbles in the vacuum. It’s best to do this a couple times. You could also try pressure casting although that might squish the wood fibers.

[@ramosel]

I've still got a couple of whales.... need the transparent aluminum.

[@scottmichaelharris]

ramosel aluminium oxide is invisible, used for you cell phone, some call it Sapphire

[@danp2779]

ramosel don't forget going to Alameda to see the "nuclear weasels"

[@seigisama9139]

transparent aluminum does exist now....

[@notanimposter]

There's also AlON, which is also used for transparent window material.

[@tlaim]

Spoiler Alert, They take the girl.

[@Chris-vx5kp]

This is what Cody's Lab would have been if Cody became an engineer in Canadia and developed a drinking past time.

[@adammckenzie1873]

the drinking part is simply part of living in Canada. its like shovelling snow here. its going to happen weather u like it or not

[@thetizzleforshizzle]

@@adammckenzie1873 yup a little drink warms the bones

[@jakeshaw6827]

Haha no kidding

[@SupermanJH68]

“ . . .where are we? Oh yeah, we just got demonetized.” Lol. My favorite Chemical engineer.

[@robertparker2420]

I think your problem is your fiddlin' with them thar tree carcasses.....DISGUSTING!!!!

[@bakerbros.109]

If CodysLab does a tool review in response to this video my life will be complete.

[@billsmathers7787]

8:27 Nitrile gloves should NEVER be used with concentrated nitric acid! The combination spontaneously combusts: not what you want to deal with while you're removing those gloves as fast as possible. Latex also ignites in presence of 70% nitric acid. For nitric acid, use butyl rubber, neoprene, or no gloves at all (keratin is surprisingly resilient to strong acids)

[@mauricevandoeselaar]

Well in acids i think it is best to use no gloves. As soon as there is acid on your skin you can wash them off ( except hf) else you are getting acid from your gloves on all your parts table gloves etc. with hydroxide i use gloves.

[@johnpossum556]

HF isn't as fast as one might think. Periodic Videos Professor Poliakov has a great video on it using a piece of raw chicken. Worth watching.

[@Tenebreon]

The problem with HF isn't that it's physically damaging; it's that the acid is absorbed through your skin and the F- ions can be toxic. And HF burns aren't always painful, so sometimes you won't even know you've been poisoned until it's too late.

[@nikgee8660]

Haha I love the 'spearmint' reference. My grandpa used to say he was going to 'pull a wrigleys' when he started an experiment.

[@alexisentonfire]

Avacadoes number. I remember learning that in honest level chemistry, same with iconic and convenient bonding , good times

[@lawrencemayne1906]

Oh.... Da punz.

[@losipoop]

why is your lab coat look just like my goin'out coat?

[@GringoActual]

Pouring out of a metal can like an uncontacted tribesman.

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

TRIGGGR'D!!!

[@glenralph5123]

Feel better soon Cody! Its one hellova a flu when it changes your voice that much!

[@dan02120it]

Just discovered your channel when i clicked on this video. Pure gold commentary! You sir have just gained another subscriber.

[@harveyhart8348]

He just has to incorperate "pic'er'nick baskets" and Booboo... hay Yogi

[@UsenameTakenWasTaken]

Just randomly clicking around to different parts of the video every second or so produces a surprisingly entertaining montage of weird shit. 9/10 would babble semi-coherently again.

[@jennifermanning7355]

A couple potential downfalls. First, the paint sticks you are using have the fibers running along the stick and not across. In the papers, they show the fibers running the short direction across the wood. The "straws" may pass light like fiber optic cable along the straw and not necessarily across them. Secondly, it looks like you mixed to g/L instead of Molar. Molar includes the volume of the dissolved solids in the liter.

[@dabmane]

Interesting point. g/L of solution VERSUS g/L of solvent is the distinction you're talking about, and it does make a difference. A lot of chemistry teachers don't even know this (at one point in time, me included!)

[@TheBackyardChemist]

Acetone will start to boil out of the mixture if you any pull more than a tiny vacuum on it. The hotplate stirrer has a magnet on a shaft in it, so it can create a rotating magnetic field, but it only works well if your stirbar is not too far away from the center of the hotplate, also, sometimes you need to soft-start it, otherwise the magnets have a hard time locking into sync at a high-RPM, kinda like a stalled 3-phase induction motor.

[@jessejcbrl]

Transparent wood for those titanium screwdrivers? Oh fuck yea

[@ryanjohnson1480]

Jesse Cabral I like it.

[@paul8254]

25:17 "Ok, so now is not the time for quiet introspection... now is the time for finger pointing." Lol

[@Yourname942]

Where did AvE's mechanical property/electronics/engineering knowledge come from? (does it come natural to you?, work a trade?, attend college?Tv?)

[@3dsman]

Pure speculation... horse sense like what he has came from the one what made him.... Dad or Mom.. or both.

[@gz7006]

Aah, Chemistry. Ye tough mistress. Cruel to those who don't pay attention in class, fair to those who do their homework. Favorite class in chem lab during uni was seeing how different elements produced different kinds of flames. Made me want to become an arsonist with a degree, but then life hits and now I'm just the former without the latter.

[@beanslicer]

I think the problem might lie in the fact that you let it set under vacuum... you should be letting the vacuum pull the gasses out, and then de-vacuum to let the outside pressure push the epoxy into the wood, run that a couple cycles and then let it set under normal pressure...

[@codymoncrief8478]

Just used a lathe for the first time today.

[@pinrestore]

Welcome to the hallowed and ancient league of swarf slingers!

[@loddude5706]

What size sheep you got? - we still shear ours . . .

[@zee-lusay4087]

Turning it on does not count. Turning it on and breaking 6 tools before you break down cussing and crying because it will take a week to get more tools does.

[@codymoncrief8478]

Zee-L Usay Only cranked the wheel the wrong direction and gouged my work about 40 times. On a side note, I'm getting plenty of practice grinding tool steel!

[@codymoncrief8478]

pocket monkey Beginning to think that of the guy at the lathe in front of mine. He forgot his chuck key in the chuck and almost ended my tool-grinding carreer. Sheesh! Some people's kids

[@agate_jcg]

Hey, great attempt! Couple of ideas. First, I think your vacuum chamber could work, just give it multiple suck-and-release cycles. But to do that you're gonna need a really slow-curing, low-viscosity epoxy. Rather than mucking about with acetone, you might want to just go out and buy some on the internet. Also, there's a way to test if it's gonna work before you do it! There's a bunch of liquids like corn syrup, and mineral oil that have the same index of refraction as cellulose: if you soak and vacuum the treated wood in one of those, you should see the "clear wood" effect so long as the wood stays wet. Then you can test your chemistry without having to mess around with the resin. I think mineral oil's probably the best choice due to its low viscosity.

[@papajon6715]

Synthesizing LSD was one of the questions on a quarterly final exam when I was younger (early 70s), the following year the next level chemistry professor had been a young PhD working in Germany during the war and we learned how to make all sorts of interesting Organic Chemistry stuff from both the Second War, amd also the First. I received a broad education at that mid-western cow college...

[@manitobanmisanthrope2495]

16 sodium atoms walked into a bar followed by Batman.

[@homerbloodysimpson]

I have that T-shirt. Fucks everyone for up to a minute, when I explain it.

[@MattsAwesomeStuff]

Well no wonder you didn't get it right. You're reading a doubly-translated Chinesium paper. You might as well be following the Swedish instructions to assemble a Volvo using only a Phillips and that one fuckin' allen wrench they give you in the flat pack box. I don't remember where this comment was going, but, Buy American Journal Subscriptions.

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

Gah! They give those trade rags away. Just not to me.

[@Eluderatnight]

Take one class at a local CC and you get an ebsco subscription for what ever 1 credit class you audit.

[@clappercl]

Mamy public libraries here in The Great White have artical subscriptions. You just need a library card!

[@adrianlastname4864]

American Journal Subscriptions < open source

[@tjeulink]

pff buying scientific research, just use sci-hub.tw like a real pirate. most of these researches are fully publically funded anyways.

[@RobbClifton]

NaOH reacts with the oil in a saponification reaction. The schlipery is human soap!!!

[@SQTOS]

Yeah, but Noah can float...

[@aussiebloke609]

Not sure from the vidjeo if you did this, but that mention of vacuum and devacuum...sounds like you need to first pull the vacuum to degas the wood fibres...then release the vacuum so that ambient air pressure can push the polymer in. Then repeat "about" 3 times. Leaving it under vacuum won't help the wood absorb the polymer as well.

[@phildavis1723]

Listen to this guy!!!!

[@markfergerson2145]

Yep, that's why the instructions say to do exactly that!

[@garrettmandujano2996]

Your explanation about what a Mol is, was better than my highschool and college chemistry teachers explanation

[@souravzzz]

Nominated AvE's hands for best supporting actor.

[@adamr9444]

Dammit... why couldn't I have had AvE or Cody for chemistry in high school??? Swear I would've passed the class then.

[@AnonCh4r1i]

And proceeded to become "the one who knocks" ? lol

[@KilltacularZac]

Not gonna lie if I'd have had uncle bumblefuck for chemistry I wouldn't be doing a chemistry degree right now hahaha

[@smackeddie3826]

Who's betting the dingus of random channel attempt this within a month.....

[@davidgalbraith1840]

Didn't King of Douchebags get arrested and deported for setting off explosives that injured his assistant?

[@avisnofsky]

David Galbraith He won't talk about it on his channel. Right after all of that happened he posted a video offering to teach how to run a channel like his (cranking out 300 low quality videos a day), for a small fee of course.

[@smackeddie3826]

David Galbraith yeah and then totally failed to mention it to anyone....

[@jasonneugebauer5310]

Recomend degassing before mixing the two components together, this should get the water out before you start. Also, when you apply the mix to the wood, if you pull a good vacuum for a minute or so, then release it and repeat a few times, it will help distribute your liquid inside the wood and also get rid of the bubbles better. Good luck, AvE has excellent content, that teaches how stuff works.

[@Ironclad17]

This channel is the best crossroads of jank and ingenuity.

[@RinoaL]

i should try this with my 1903 lumber i just ripped out of a local building! just ya know, if you ever find a way that works so i can copy. :D or would you care for some antique wood sections?

[@wlrottge]

Old chemistry saying, do as you aughter and acid to water. That said, add your bases to the water, not the other way around... more safe... and like my wife says, "safety top five" Also, get some good epoxy; i make carbon parts for fun and you can set your watch to West Systems products. I'm also told tha Mas makes some good stuff, but West has a TON of documentation out there that is really helpful. One more thing, grab an old refrigerator compressor; can make a dirty cheap vacuum pump easy! Oh, last one... you're right, they didn't teach us to make LSD in Chem E either.... Did learn plenty of other "stuff" though 😉

[@Chris-du7hi]

I was surprised he missed this

[@MrStonedOne]

Part of the problem is the age of the epoxy. You can't know if that was a contributing factor and the age old wisdom of troubleshooting is "the more unknowns, the more you'll never know". known good new epoxy, thin it out a bit, and they were talking vacuum cycles, not leaving it in a vacuum, bho (weed/hash oil) uses the same process. You need to get it up to vacuum, then slowly release the vacuum, and re-get it up to vacuum. look into the reference and you'll likely find something that mentions how long each cycle should last. you might also need heat but with epoxy thats unlikely since it should be able to generate its own.

[@boblablablaw6677]

I greatly appreciate your willingness to truely teach/educate and you are extremely entertaining with your real world experiance stories and choice of words. I wish for you massive quantities of monitization and millions of click-ums!

[@iStormUK]

"Oh yea, we just got demonetised!" - lmfao :)

[@jeffgates7645]

FYI, when ever you put on the rubber gloves, don't forget to say, Now just relax.

[@jay6400]

Hey AvE just a heads up it's not illegal to own those types of scales in the UK, however if any amount of drug residue is found on them no matter how miniscule then you will be charged with possession for sure and most likely they will tap on the additional charge with the intent to supply, i.e. equating you to a dealer which carry's a much higher sentence!

[@benedictnothing]

Yep, drug paraphernalia isn't illegal on its own. I live close to at least two shops that sell nowt but bongs and pipes.

[@peterwelsh6975]

jay6400 you only get in trouble if your carrying it around with you. Not new in box or chilling at home. Don't let them find it with zippies in your glovebox lol

[@sheppycider123]

BS with the additional charge. CPS ain’t gonna waste money with a charge they can’t prove beyond reasonable doubt.

[@RyTrapp0]

That's what's great about the US of A - if any residue is found, say, in a car you bought used yesterday and the popo find it, basically anything & everything in your life becomes paraphernalia, and those prosecutors getting ready to make a run for office can "make an example" out of you at will with a mile long list of charges! Brand new scale, in box unopened? Proof that you're a dealer! Microscopic amounts of nose candy in an otherwise clean car? Obviously you're a drug mule for the Mexi cartels! Straw from a McDonald's cup in the trash? Looks like someone has been snorting something! And you think you're innocent? You better have deep pockets for a quality attorney who can PROVE IT, because you're guilty until then! But, hey! If you play ball and give them the name of your sketchy neighbor down the street who may or may not be doing anything wrong, we can talk about reducing this to a minor possession misdemeanor!

[@McCillian]

My confuser has a drip now.. I laughed so hard I had to pause it

[@mattiewho]

I look forward to all future iterations of this experiment, your videos always make me happy. Thank you.

[@nicstroud]

So, if I may make a suggestion. Put a layer of tin foil or cling film in the bottom of your vacuum chamber or even cut the bottom part off a bucket and slide that in. This should prevent clag or general spillage from fucking her up

[@ZylonFPV]

Your chemistry jokes left me feeling a bit endothermic

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

These vampiric comments are sucking my energy.

[@ZylonFPV]

Your reply made me exothermic. Equilibrium has been achieved. I guess in this video you had to settle for bad chemistry jokes because all the good ones Argon.

[@seanmcaleavy2369]

Hahaha you guys are too many.

[@888johnmac]

I've lost an electron, are you positive ?? .... AvE 2018

[@seanmcaleavy2369]

The entire post was punnier than shit?

[@siconic21]

Proper PPE! Proper Proper Protection Equipment is always more skookum than just 1 proper...

[@2450logan]

I was legit screaming like a fucktard when you where searching the periodic table. But Na I'm all good now......

[@gideonbowman2689]

logan thompson 😂

[@BoresaverAus]

LOL

[@drspastic]

good source of h2o2 at higher strength is your local hydroponic grow shop. sold as liquid oxygen for root growth

[@Mr2rojan]

+1 for Nile Red, I love watching that guy's channel - as you said, you get to see what actually happens as opposed to what the books says should happen.

[@Gizmowerks]

Your cavalier manner is demystifying chemistry! More of this education please and thank you.

[@TheGreatDefective]

What I had to do was go on the chinesium website and now my confuser's got the drip

[@001desertrat3]

Ave -- To plasticise the wood -- Place a piece of Plastic Wrap (cling film, shrink wrap, Saran wrap, cling wrap, food wrap, or pliofilm) on top of your Electric Hot Plate (to protect the Hot Plate) , next place your pulpy wood on the plastic film and gently heat the wood to expand and drive off the Air molecules in the wood , after the wood has become HOT to the touch (not scorched or burned) , apply Cyanoacrylate Glue (Crazy Glue) - (get the CHEAPEST you can find, it all works) and saturate the wood with the Cyanoacrylate Glue . Keep adding the glue to the wood until it just won't take any more (the wood will act like a sponge) . Remove the plastic film with the wood on it from the Hot Plate and set it aside to cure . When cured , Acrylic Plastic will have replaced the air molecules in the wood and you now have plastic impregnated wood . This can now be cut , ground , and polished just like working with normal plastic . I do Lapidary work and make Fine Jewelry out of Sandstone which is VERY porous and normally cannot be polished , and I use this exact same proceedure to fill the air spaces between the grains of sand in the Sandstone , and then polish same to a high luster .

[@fnwodd1]

001DesertRat. Can you send me any more tips /tricks surrounding that subject

[@fnwodd1]

001DesertRat [e-mail]

[@001desertrat3]

fnwodd1 -- For Sandstone or any porous material , just follow my directions as previously stated . Good Luck and have fun !

[@gla3dr]

25:09 "I have that tattooed in Kanji scribbles down my spine." Sounds like it would be a nice match to a certain actress' "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" tattoo ;)

[@martysmith7803]

Oh, is that what that says? Not that I've ever heard of her

[@idea-shack]

You want to release the vacuum after a few minutes so that atmospheric pressure squeezes the resin into the voids in the sample, wait a few more minutes then repeat for good measure. A slow curing resin and transparent acrylic lid for the top of your vacuum chamber would also help.

[@madmat2001]

My father makes bows and uses epoxy for laminating the limbs. Over the years (he's been making them for close to 45 years now) he's found that if you want to slow down the rate of cure on the epoxy you need to drop the hardener amount which results in a more elastic resin when fully cured. He also uses alcohol to thin it.

[@blaze112221]

The lsd joke won you a sub lol

[@enviromentalny]

Next on the list: CRYSTAL METH!

[@PapaWheelie1]

Breaking Bad Canada Edition...

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PapaWheelie ...fuuuuuny bro..

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

i just learned the show is NOT canadian.

[@redsquirrelftw]

Maple syrup infused meth. Needs to be stolen syrup from a train car in Quebec for full effect.

[@ArizonaRanger21]

Breaking Bad wouldn’t happen here with all the free healthcare and all.

[@firebush1343]

Its like watching a smart Ricky do science ;p

[@officermeowmeowfuzzyface4408]

Store-bought distilled water, stored in plastic containers, will have particles leached from the plastic. I was just reading about this for water sensitivity testing. Before it was poured in the plastic it was probably better than your reverse-osmosis system.

[@arglebargle42]

I saw this first on NileRed, but this channel did it so much more entertainingly.

[@keithnewton5508]

What was it that caused swelling to tighten on the shaft. I want some for my wife. Thanks

[@balsamforge4741]

Use that stuff that they use to stabilize wood? Cactus juice or something.

[@SteveisTall]

That's what I thought. I've linked to it in my comment.

[@johnpierce1720]

Came to the comments to suggest cactus juice.

[@aaronbrown4088]

That would be tequila, right?

[@balsamforge4741]

Aaron Brown pretty sure. Last time I drank it I woke up with a wife and two kids

[@nelumbonucifera7537]

Cactus Juice is a brand of methyl methacrylate (MMA) marketed to woodworkers. MMA is the monomer used to produce acrylic and can be purchased from many other sources as well, though not always in so convenient a form.

[@wilhobbs207]

I suggested "Tongue in cheek" to my wife the other night but she wasn't going for it, no how.

[@TheCalgarydoug]

I heard the girl at the lumber store goes for tongue in groove.

[@seanmcaleavy2369]

I'll be there, lickety split!

[@templock]

When the stirbar goes oscillating like that you turn the spinning off until the stirbar slows down and then turn up the spinning back up. Usually happens in more viscous solutions, but works on most stir plates unless they are simply on/off

[@kmcrafting4837]

I recently learned this lesson. Epoxy does not cure well under a vacuum. I found cycling for up to half the working time didn't adversely affect the results. I'd also recommend you use Cactus juice as your resin hardener, it's much friendlier to work with.